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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: Is China Complicit in Ukraine?
Description: Why did Xi apparently green light Putin's war? What does China potentially gain from war in Europe? How does this war fit into China's long-term strategy?
Arguably, any understanding of the Russian invasion of Ukraine must take into account the Beijing Winter Olympics or, rather, the meeting there of Presidents Xi and Putin. They held extensive talks about the state of the world and about their relationship. When they finished, they declared that friendship between China and Russia “has no limits" and that “there are no forbidden areas of cooperation.” Can there be any doubt that they included Putin’s war pl...